[Peace-discuss] Re: Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 56, Issue 100- Tell them what you think!

Mon Sep 22 21:35:46 CDT 2008

Jennifer et all, 
Send this to them.  Tag on the first YouTube video of Jerry White, the SEP candidate for US President.  These elections, local, state and federal are just one more sham wrought upon the US populace by the criminal two party system of Democrat and Republican who in no way represent us, the working class.  Read our website, join our election Campaign, support our platform and donate to the SEP in this 2008 Election.  Thank you.

Joe Parnarauskis
2006 SEP Candidate
52nd Illinois Senate District

http://www.socialequality.com/video.html

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Subject: Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 56, Issue 100
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Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 12:00 PM

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Today's Topics:

   1. Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] "No Blank Check" or "No
%$#!*@	Check"
      (Brussel Morton K.)
   2. Tell them what you think!!! (Jenifer Cartwright)

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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:03:16 -0500
From: "Brussel Morton K." <mkbrussel at comcast.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] "No Blank Check" or
"No
	%$#!*@	Check"
To: Peace-discuss Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
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>
>
> "No Blank Check" or "No %$#!*@ Check"
> http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/36169
> By David Swanson
>
> The last time the Democrats all started bleating "No blank check -  
> No blank check" it meant only one thing. They were signing a check  
> and scribbling a bunch of nonsense in the memo line.
>
> If history is any guide, we can expect a bill to come out of  
> Congress requiring that the Secretary of the Treasury make a report  
> to Congress within three months on all areas covered by the  
> legislation, with the exception of those he chooses not to report on.
>
> In particular, he will be required, if he chooses, to report on the  
> progress being made toward compelling families that have lost their  
> homes to pay for their own foreclosures. Fair is fair, and the  
> Iraqis are going to start paying for their own occupation someday  
> very soon.
>
> The Treasury Secretary will be required to report, if he chooses,  
> on key benchmarks, including equitable sharing among all plutocrats  
> of our Social Security savings. This is a question of fair and  
> equitable distribution of resources and might serve as a model for  
> the still badly needed Iraq hydro-carbon law, which is also purely  
> about fairness. The same goes for Medicare and the money raised  
> from selling off our schools.
>
> At least that's the pessimistic prediction. On the other hand,  
> there is an important variable that has been altered in this case.  
> We are talking about throwing a trillion dollars of our  
> grandchildren's money at people who do not need it, but this time  
> we're proposing to do it for something other than war. There are no  
> flags waving or war music playing for this one. As a result, it's  
> possible to see things like an article on CNN that begins:
>
> "NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- 'NO NO NO. Not just no, but HELL
NO,'  
> writes Richard, a reader from Anchorage, Alaska. 'This is robbery  
> pure and simple,' Anna from Denver posted on CNNMoney.com's  
> TalkBack blog this weekend. 'It's our money! Let these companies  
> die,' added Claudio from Plainville, Conn."
>
> Similar comments on wars are simply not published by CNN in the  
> heat of an invasion. Will our so-called representatives notice the  
> difference? I wouldn't count on it. The smart investment right now  
> is in a moving van pointed toward Canada.
>
> I just read Thomas Frank's "The Wrecking Crew," and his
central  
> point is a timely one. When neocons wreck government they consider  
> it a victory. Scandalous earmarks on bills are a good thing because  
> they make people hate government, which is the higher purpose of  
> all governmental malfeasance. When FEMA proves incompetent, success  
> has been achieved, because the goal is to convince everyone that  
> government is incompetent, that corporations are where all skill  
> and responsibility can be found.
>
> "People being pissed off at government is the very ore of right- 
> wing discontent," Frank writes. "Corrupt earmarks, inserted by  
> conservatives, lead to conservative victory. But, you protest,  
> nobody really falls for this. Everyone knows that the guy who got  
> the 'Bridge to Nowhere' earmark was a conservative Republican.  
> People know where the blame belongs, and they punish the malefactor.
>
> "Maybe so. But remember the long-term effects of Watergate. While  
> the immediate consequences of Nixon's outrageous behavior were jail  
> sentences for several conservative Republicans and the election of  
> a bumper crop of liberals to Congress in 1974, Watergate  
> permanently poisoned public attitudes toward government and stirred  
> up the wave that swept Ronald Reagan into office six years later --  
> and made antigovernment cynicism the default American political  
> sentiment."
>
> All of which puts a different perspective on a government proposal  
> to hand governmental levels of funding over to Wall Street. If the  
> proposal goes through and the companies survive, the credit goes to  
> Wall Street and the crushing debt requiring slashing of useful  
> services goes to government. If the proposal fails, it also  
> succeeds, by turning people against big government spending and  
> interference in the Marketplace. After all, this proposal is  
> "socialism," and if you oppose it, then you certainly must
oppose  
> such identical horrors as "socialized medicine."
>
> For neocons, this was an easy decision. When you control the media,  
> and your opponents are Democrats, there's almost no way for you to  
> lose. So why wouldn't you propose borrowing a trillion dollars to  
> hand out to your friends?
>
> Of course, in theory, the Democrats could stop saying "No blank  
> check" and start saying "No +&*^%!# check!" but I'm
not going to  
> hold my breath until they do.
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:06:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Tell them what you think!!!
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It'll make you feel better, and if enuff of us phone or email, it might
have an effect.
 --Jenifer

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